Example sentences of "[noun] of have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 2 | At Garrigues , most of us tried to hold out as long as possible , preferring constipation to the risks of having a crap . |
| 3 | These groups share the characteristics of having long-term and chronic needs . |
| 4 | But tipplers should forget the traditional hair-of-the-dog remedy of having another alcoholic drink the next morning . |
| 5 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 6 | thinking of having mahogany |
| 7 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 8 | I 've also taken the therapy techniques I 've known into women 's groups and they 've adopted methods of having a dialogue in the group and stuff shifted in the group like lightning . |
| 9 | Well my Lord in my submission it is all those items which are claimed , the trading losses of having to run the business erm operating at a loss for that trading year er the loss on resale . |
| 10 | One would not be so sensitive about a little natural arrogance in a powerful nation ( a fault from which other powerful nations suffer as well ) were it not for the disastrous effect of the German consciousness of having a ‘ mission ’ in the past . |
| 11 | He went on , however , to accuse the President of having been a habitual cocaine user in the 1970s , and of attempting to seduce his ( Pedro 's ) wife . |
| 12 | That 's right , we 've got to balance that with the fact that we did promise them a decrease , but we 've got the erm leverage of having helped them . |
| 13 | I then remembered Lubor 's mention of having your business card on his desk . ’ |
| 14 | bereavement reaction to the loss of having a biological child — there may be unresolved issues if they are infertile ; |
| 15 | And then to be treated er as out and out er criminals , like this Quadling had done with us is just beyond all bounds of having reasonable |
| 16 | Walter 's position as house-husband is just an affectation , the result of having read ‘ all the right books ’ . |
| 17 | Phar Lap was now poised to conquer further heights in America , but just over two weeks later he was dead , apparently as a result of having eaten grass or plants which had been sprayed with an insecticide . |
| 18 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 19 | Or , as a result of having heard most pieces played from just about every angle ( backwards , sideways , upside-down ) , one can no longer endure certain pieces given with any degree of imprecision . |
| 20 | The Revenue claimed that tax should be assessed on the full cost of the places , while Mr Hart argued that it should be assessed on the extra costs , such as meals and laundry , the school incurred as a result of having an additional pupil . |
| 21 | The voltage across the electrodes ionises the atoms ( ions are atoms that have become electrically charged as a result of having gained or lost an electron from their periphery ) . |
| 22 | This is the natural result of having to live and work close together , under pressure , maybe for several weeks on end . |
| 23 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 24 | Any competitive networks set up might produce an increase in demand as a result of having stimulated new requirements . |
| 25 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |
| 26 | Which individuals or groups are being ‘ objective ’ as a result of having writing ? |
| 27 | Words might also gain easier pronunciation as a result of having meanings . |
| 28 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 29 | ‘ shall be unenforceable against the other party [ i.e. the investor ] ; and that party shall be entitled to recover any money or other property paid or transferred by him under the agreement , together with compensation for any loss sustained by him as a result of having parted with it . |
| 30 | The difference between the bottom two lines represents , for this example , the lifetime earnings forgone as a result of having children , and amounts to £135 000 . |